2011 Learning and Leisure Hand and Upper Limb Conference

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CONFERENCE CONVENOR

Associate Professor Greg Bain

Greg is a member of the Australian Hand Surgery Society and former President of the Australian Shoulder and Elbow Society and the South Australian Hand Society. He has published widely in international journals on disorders of the upper limb. He has a special interest in anatomy, trauma, arthroscopy and minimally invasive surgery. Greg is Associate Professor at the Department of Anatomy and also Orthopaedic Surgery within the University of Adelaide. He is a Senior Visiting Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) and Modbury Public Hospital.

FACULTY

Dr Simon Archibald - New York, USA

Simon Archibald is the Chief Scientific Officer & Vice president of Clinical Affairs for Integra LifeSciences Corporation. In 1997 Dr Archibald initiated & ran the program that produced the DuraGenA®Dural Graft Matrix, for which he is a co-inventor. Previously Dr Archibald was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Duke University Medical Center. His primary research focus is in peripheral & central nervous system regeneration with a particular emphasis of translating discoveries in the basic sciences to clinical practice.

Dr Kevin Plancher - New York, USA

Kevin Plancher is a leading orthopaedic surgeon and sports medicine expert with extensive practice in knee, shoulder, elbow & hand injuries. Dr Plancher is an Associate Clinical Professor in Orthopaedics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NY. He is on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the American Journal of Medicine and Sports and the American Journal of Orthopedics. Dr Plancher lectures extensively domestically & internationally on issues related to Orthopaedic procedures and injury management.

Associate Professor Mark Ross - Brisbane, AUSTRALIA

Dr Ross graduated with a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Queensland in 1987. He completed his FRACS in Orthopaedic Surgery in 1996 and undertook a fellowship in Hand and Upper Limb Surgery at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in 1997, before travelling to the USA to undertake a 12-month Fellowship at the Kleinert Institute for Hand & Microsurgery in Louisville, Kentucky. In 2008 Dr Ross was confirmed as Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery by the School of Medicine, University of Queensland.

Dr Carlos Wigderowitz - Dundee, UNITED KINGDOM

Carlos Wigderowitz graduated from medical school in Brazil in 1982. He is now a member of the BESS and BSSH, where he is currently an examiner for the diploma. In 2003 Dr Wigderowitz became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, contributing to the Research Committee. He is also the Chairman the local medical research Ethics Committee and the Program Director for the Trauma and Orthopedic Post-graduate Program of the East of Scotland Deanery.

SPEAKERS

• Greg Couzens (Brisbane QLD)
• Yasith Edirisinghe (Cranbourne VIC)
• Angus Keogh (Perth WA)
• Stuart Kirkham (Sydney, NSW)
• Janak Mehta (Darwin NT)
• Foti Sofiadellis (Melbourne VIC)
• Perry Turner (Cairns QLD)